BORDERS

“Of the real sites and the Royal Sites”

“Borders” is a photographic project developed inside the margins that mark off the different counties that share the Iberian Peninsula. A visual reflection on these limits, questioning the physical and imaginary barriers in a temporal geographic contour, changing and sometimes non-existent.

The differences and similarities of the two sides of the same dividing line. Fictional tracings that try to delimit common spaces that do not understand terms, borders, or margins.

Stripe dot, stripe dot, stripe dot …

Discontinuous lines on old maps that we have memorized like a thousand times repeated dogma, walls of fog, wire fences of water, land, homeland and flag.Geopolitical decisions that have decided our language, culture, roots and a marked syndrome of belonging, confronting identities, separating hugs, breaking apart meeting places.

Luckely, these borders are imaginary lines, malleable and ephemeral, which in the future (as History has taught us) will mutate, vanish and one day will melt and merge to finally disappear.

The following images of this project have been taken along the different borders of the Spanish State with Portugal, France, Andorra and Gibraltar.